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... This interim report provides some initial observations, namely: • The effectiveness of the NASA space technology program can be enhanced by employing proven management practices and principles, particularly with regard to the following:2 ― Increasing program stability, ― Pursuing evolutionary improvements and adopting intermediate goals, ― Maintaining a balance between the focus and flexibility of the roadmaps in establishing technical approaches, ― Supporting adequate flight tests of new technologies, ― Addressing facility issues (to the extent appropriate in a technology development program) , and ― Continuing NASA's tradition of cooperative development of new technologies.
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... Advanced technologies are needed to improve space situation awareness, to provide dynamic models of the space environment, and to develop innovative approaches for mitigating the varied effects of space weather and to resolve operational failures and anomalies. The success of OCT's technology development program is essential, because technological breakthroughs have long been the foundation of NASA's successes, from its earliest days, to the Apollo program, to a vast array of space science missions and the International Space Station.
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